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[CASHeW-s] Re: References added....not posted on CVS...
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Andrew John Hughes |
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[CASHeW-s] Re: References added....not posted on CVS... |
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Thu, 16 Dec 2004 09:58:28 +0000 |
On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 09:47, Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 05:21, Ravish Bhagdev wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have added references to the proposal as decided. Please check.
> > Its appearing as [3a], [4b] etc. Is this the way misc references are
> > added by default?
>
> No. You're not giving BibTeX/LaTeX enough information to create the
> references differently.
>
> > I have been trying to make these work whole night. I dont know why
> > when I add all the references together in the .bib file, I keep
> > getting error, undefined reference. I give up...I have not posted it
> > on CVS, please check if I am using some wrong syntax. I am using
> > CygWin for this. I have attached my .tex and .bib files.
> >
>
> Couple of problems. Firstly, dropping them in locally gave some compile
> errors on the BibTeX file (you should be runnning 'make' to create the
> DVI file). Removing the braces ({ and }) placed around your authors
> solves this.
>
> Once this is compiled, you are then left with some very odd looking
> references. The references are constructed from the authors' names, as
> I showed you yesterday. For example, take our group. The BibTeX author
> key would be:
>
> author = {Bhagdev, Ravish and Sanka, Atheesh and Liu, Xian and Hughes,
> Andrew and Foster, Simon}
>
> with a year key:
>
> year = {2004}
>
> Using the alphabetic style we use, this becomes [BSL+04]. The problem
> with your references is that most of them don't have sufficient author
> information to construct this. The solution is basically to play with
> them, until you get the best looking result.
>
> Dropping 'et al' from them makes most of them usable. Abbreviating
> Object Management Group to OMG helps too, as otherwise it thinks we're
> talking about someone called Mr. Object Management Group (or Mrs. or
> Miss. or Ms., shouldn't be sexist here. Or Dr. even). So, it then
> works with it as Gro, thinking Group is the surname. If you use OMG,
> you end up with a reference [OMG03], which is clearer.
>
> Please try and add years to them all, even if you have to resort to
> using the copyright notice at the bottom of the page (2004 for the
> Microsoft one). This keeps all the references looking similar.
>
> With COM, CORBA, and BPEL (and perhaps others), you should really be
> using the standard, if available, which will have explicit authors
> listed, as with OWL-S, WSMO, etc. However, the first two are pretty
> old, so you may not be able to find them on-line.
>
> > Can anyone who is able to make it work post it on CVS?
> >
>
> I'd rather you made the changes and submitted yourself. Not only will
> this give you practise with CVS, but CVS records your user ID when you
> submit, and although I can put a comment to the effect that this is your
> work, this is clearer and is probably what Neil & co. will be looking
> at.
>
> > - Ravish.
As a postscript to that (and what I meant to say earlier), thank you for
doing this. The work is fine, it's just a case of getting used to using
BibTeX correctly.
--
Andrew :-)
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